On April 2, 1979, invisible anthrax spores escaped a secret Soviet military lab, drifting over Sverdlovsk and triggering a deadly outbreak. The Kremlin blamed poisoned meat—but Western ...

Bei Zhu, 62, the Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons was, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, arrested on charges of not ...

Probably the 20th-century's first bio-weapon, Glanders was used by German undercover agents who infected the livestock of Allied countries with the highly contagious B. mallei agent.